Algae Eating Trapdoor Pond Snails Small Quantity– Pond Megastore
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Algae Eating Trapdoor Pond Snails
Small Quantity

Pond Plants, Water Lilies, & Live goods ship in Spring & Summer during your proper growing seasons. Check by email for availability to ship other times of the year.
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 Japanese Trapdoor Snails (Small Quantities of trapdoor snails are bagged and sent from our nursery in the same box as the bags of pond plants; Large Bulk Quantities are sent separately from our fishery). Please only place your order during periods when the delivery area is expected to be below 90 degrees. We do our best to ship spring orders mainly before then but placing orders mid and late summer for snails should only be done in areas below 90 for highs. Ordering snails when destinations are expected to be above 90 is at the risk of the client/receiver. 

Japanese Trapdoor Snails (pond snails, (Viviparous Malleatus) are algae eaters, feeding on the hairy algae that often grows in spring and summer. Japanese trapdoor snippets produce 20 - 25 young people in their lifetime and do so over several years. Typically, you should see one snail per every 12 - 18 gallons of water in a small, ornamental pond. One snail per every 20 - 25 gallons per 1500-8000 gallons. On larger ponds or lakes, the number is even fewer. Overall, pond snails are less expensive than weekly algaecide. Pond snails, if used in the right numbers, is a great defense against bottom sludge and hair algae. You will rarely see trapdoor pond snails as they will stay on the bottom or on the stems and leaves of plants beneath the surface of the water and do not have lungs like mystery snails so they have no reason to surface like those snails to breathe. If you want to see the snails in the pond, choose the warm-weather mystery snails instead or in combination! 

 

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